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Introducing The Interesting Sounds Of Two Dollar Trio, the debut album from Adam Hattaway, Dillon Feeney & Nick Armstrong out today on all streaming platforms and limited edition compact disc. 

Tāmaki Makaurau-based singer-songwriter Iris Zhang 张雨清 releases her new single Jewels on Friday, 23 October. Jewels is Iris' most heartfelt song yet - a soulful piano ballad about finding love, that old chestnut, like a lost soul stumbling upon buried treasure.

AMA-nominated Pōneke folk act Butter Wouldn’t Melt has released a haunting new single, ‘Nettle Song’, which aptly comes just in time for Halloween. 

After opening Disney's Moana: Voices Across the Ocean alongside Stan Walker, former Fifth Harmony star Dinah Jane joins Tāmaki Makaurau producer EDYONTHEBEAT on "Love My Lonely", the eighth single from his second album im just a producer, out 27 November 2026.

ECAL is a Hip-Hop artist raised in Moerewa, Northland, Aotearoa, whose music reflects the experiences, values and perspectives that have shaped him growing up in rural Northland. ECAL has recently released his album Takes A Village, featuring collaborations with producers including Ricky Paul, IAMTHEOFFICIAL and Infectiouss.

Following the success of his 2025 album Hard Road, Pinny returns with a song that reaches into a more vulnerable and emotional side of his songwriting. “How Do I Stop Loving You” explores the struggle of trying to walk away from someone you still deeply love — knowing that some relationships can never simply become a friendship.

'Time For You' is the title song off of Tusekah's debut EP. The EP is a story about love and loss. The EP hears Tusekah sonically lean into her RnB influences more than ever. 'Time For You' starts off with 'Time For You' which is a positive and groovy love song which takes influences from 2000s RnB.

Following more than a decade at the forefront of Aotearoa's contemporary soul scene, critically acclaimed multi-instrumentalist, songwriter and producer, Louis Baker, cements his past accolades with the release of his already acclaimed, second studio album, Trouble. The first three singles off the album have already surpassed 1.2 million streams, with much more to come.

Since launching in 2021, Midwave Breaks have captivated fans across airwaves and stages around the country, with 9 independent radio singles hitting the NZ Top 10 Rock Airplay Charts, a nod for Best Rock Act at the 2024 AMAs, and highlight-reel live performances in support of Incubus, Live, and Devilskin.

Ōtautahi drama-kid-turned pop-diva Phoebe Vic arrives with her roaring debut album Mood Swinger, a triumphantly sharp and self-confident statement on the trials of being a modern woman in a modern age.

New Zealand’s newest star Morgan La Fae invites listeners into the world of Full Immersion, a fantasy land where memories feel tangible, nostalgia becomes almost physical, and the line between what is real and what is imagined begins to blur. Rather than simply putting songs together, Full Immersion builds a world. It’s a place for the romantics, the daydreamers, and the overthinkers.

Following Emma’s Wellington headline show In Between The Verses at BATS Theatre in July, and the success of previous 2026 singles ‘Gracie’ and ‘Losing Sight’ making #3 and #18 on the Hot 20 Aotearoa Singles (Aotearoa Music Charts) and Rolling Stone Australia/NZ as ‘Best New Zealand Music of the Week feature’, Emma is back with another single She’s not coming back.

Ōtautahi-based singer-songwriter KARLESHIA returns with ‘Altar’, the second single from Karleishia’s forthcoming debut EP CHURCH TRAUMA, due out Friday 30 October.

Vic Vega is a 26-year-old Māori autistic rapper born and raised in Papakura, New Zealand. Vic Vega has been rapping since he was 8 years old and has evolved through the years. Vic has been making his own rap beats and writes his own lyrical material at a very young age. 

Ōtautahi Christchurch street party band Yurt Party release ‘Boho Dub’ on Friday 9 October. It's the first of three singles from a new album due early 2027, and it lands two weeks before the band heads to Australia for shows in Melbourne, Brisbane and at Tablelands Folk Festival.

K BEAT NATIONALS brings dancers of all ages and backgrounds together through a shared love of K-pop. At its heart is a space to build confidence, learn teamwork and express who they are—giving their dedication a professional stage and bringing whānau and the dance community together to celebrate.

Ōtautahi songwriter Agnes Aleesy’s latest offering La Columna is a song named after and partly inspired by Frida Kahlo’s The Broken Column. Inspired by experimental, genre-blurring artists like James Blake and Moses Sumney, it moves between bargaining and something close to faith, without settling on either.

Celebrated NZ singer and songwriter Theia was recognised at the University of Auckland's annual Blues Awards on Friday night with the award for Arts and Culture and the prestigious Major Māori Award. 

Ōtautahi’s redhead, horse girl, theatre kid turned indie artist Isabella Jane returns with Burger King, an indie folk-rock track taking aim at the ever changing relationship between people and technology. 

Dynamic actor and poet Hester Ullyart announces her debut album, The All Clear, out November 13th. A searching ten-song work of spoken and sung narratives featuring a distinctive ensemble of Ōtautahi musicians: Reuben Derrick, Joseph McCallum, Hannah Everingham and Nicole Reddington.

Following his standout 2024 debut In Green, the now London-based drummer and artist Taylor Griffin returns with The Dream Dancer, a deeply personal 5-track EP documenting a period of major transition, creative growth, and relocation.

Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland producer Edward Liu (EDYONTHEBEAT) releases "Frivolous" with Devin Velez, the seventh single from his second album im just a producer, out 27 November 2026 via New Zealand distributor DRM. 

Jason Parker is back with “One Week Sober,” the lead single and opening track from his forthcoming album, “What Makes a Man”, through Bigpop Records, Out Now!

Wellington-based, Aotearoa-South African artist InDuna returns with new atmospheric anthem ‘Favourite Colours’. Built around warm acoustic guitars, emotive vocals and cinematic production, ‘Favourite Colours’ creates both an intimate and soaring feeling, as it seamlessly blends vulnerable songwriting with modern Afro-pop and folk influences.

Midwave Breaks celebrate the release of their first full-length album, with four special shows across New Zealand.  Presented by The Rock FM, the Tauranga based Alt-Rock duo will be joined by a host of Special Guests across the tour, including: The Response, The Rainfall, Courtnay and The Unholy Reverie, No Pilot, Not Exact, and Van Brookes. 

Sometimes the most loving thing we can do is let someone go—not with anger or bitterness, but with peace in our hearts and the courage to genuinely wish them well. That is the message at the heart of Diamond Langi’s powerful new single ‘Wish You Well’. Of Tongan, Cape Verdean and Portuguese heritage, Diamond is an Aotearoa-based artist, actor, director and writer whose creative work brings together music, film, fashion and visual storytelling.

Enigmatic band Same Name Confusion is making a return, and doing it their way. After a multi-year hiatus, the Auckland / Melbourne-based group is returning with their second full-length album, SNC. Born across distance and refined over time with intentional, "slow" songwriting, the record captures a groove-focused, Randy Newman inspired record with a knack for finding the playful, romantic (and occasionally absurd) beauty in everyday life. 

For the first part of his career, award winning artist, MOHI, made the music he thought he was supposed to make. On Māori Kid Meets World, he steps beyond that polished image and introduces the person behind it: a funny, sharp-edged and fiercely ambitious Māori kid from Henderson with a rich, unmistakable voice.

Exploring themes of repentance, alchemy, death and forgiveness through lyricism laced in imagery of temples, healers and spirituality. Luna and the Aether bring an element of catharsis to their every performance. See them live this spring in a city near you, to be enveloped by crushing riffs and walls of noise, and be entranced by Luna’s haunting vocals and profound lyrical craftsmanship.